Mary Szybist (born 20 September 1970) is an American poet. She won the National Book Award for Poetry for her collection Incarnadine. Life She grew up in Pennsylvania, earned her B.A. and M.T. (Master of Teaching) from the University of Virginia, and attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Teaching-Writing Fellow. Szybist's Incarnadine (Graywolf Press, 2013) was the recipient of the 2013 National Book Award for Poetry, and her collection Granted (Alice James Books, 2003) won the 2003 Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books and the 2004 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award, and was a finalist for the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. In a feature on NBCCA poetry finalists, the Christian Science Monitor wrote: Szybist's poetry has appeared in Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, AGNI, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Iowa Review, Poetry, Tin House, and The Kenyon Review, and The Best American Poetry 2008. Szybist is an associate professor of English at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, and a faculty member at the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. She also has taught at Kenyon College, the University of Iowa, the Tennessee Governor’s School for Humanities, the University of Virginia’s Young Writers’ Workshop, and West High School in Iowa City. Honors and awards 2019 Laureate of The George W. Hunt, S.J., Prize for Journalism, Arts & Letters 2013 National Book Award for Poetry 2009 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship 2009 Witter Bynner Fellowship 2004 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 2002 Beatrice Hawley Award 1996 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award Academy of American Poets Prize Bibliography Poetry Granted, Alice James Books, 2003, List of poems References External links Mary Szybist: Official Website Web del Sol > Chapbook Feature > Mary Szybist, Poems from Granted PBS: The NewsHour > ArtBeat: Weekly Poem: Apology, by Mary Szybist Kenyon College > The Kenyon Collegian > Interview with Mary Szybist Poetry Foundation > In Tennessee I Found a Firefly, by Mary Szybist Kenyon College faculty Curry School of Education alumni Lewis & Clark College faculty Poets from Pennsylvania Poets from Oregon Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni National Endowment for the Arts Fellows Warren Wilson College faculty Living people Place of birth missing (living people) American women poets Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award winners 1970 births 21st-century American poets American women academics 21st-century American women